Travel Forum / Destinations / Africa / September 2006

I am from just outside of Toronto, Canada and was just hired by the
Canadian goverment to work for a small organization in Cape Town.  It's
pretty much volunteer work, with travel and living expenses funded by
the Canadian goverment.  I'll be living there for 5 months starting at

Hope some of you might be interested in a report and pictures from our
recent self-drive trip from Namibia, through the Caprivi strip and
around the Okavango delta in Botswana.
http://www.wildworldweb.co.uk/holidays/namibia2.htm

i've set up an album of the photos i took last month in Mozambique,
South Africa and Swaziland: http://tinyurl.com/lx29n
I hope they'll reflect at least a fraction of the magic i felt there
(especially in Mozambique)...

The Klaas Voogds Maze of Soekershof Walkabout in Robertson is not just
a maze or even the largest hedge-maze in the world; it's a maze so
different that it hardly fits into the 'perception box' of the average
tourist. This is a maze of life. Visitors walk from one story into the

Just got back from S. Africa; Cape Town and Kruger Park in particular.
Since I got some pretty sound advice a few months back from this group,
I guess I owe this brief report.
A summary: what a great country. I keep my fingers crossed that it

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accommodation, in an exclusive guest house offering homely and friendly
hospitality?
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I'm planning to do some extensive travelling in Africa and to that end will
be buying a vehicle and getting it fitted out for overland travel. I
would really welcome any recommendations with regard where to purchase a
suitable vehicle, I was looking at Land Rover Defenders or ...

I am planning a trip to Egypt and am wondering if anyone out there has
had any experiance with "Memphis Tours" or other Egyptian tour
companies?  Any info would be greatly apreciated.

I am a smoker. Yeah Yeah stop wrinkling your noses.
It is HARD for us smokers to sit on a plane or train and crave a
cigarette...  This is not hypnoses or meditation, it is a quite lil
pouch you put in your mouth and it .. wait for it.. gives you the

See new sites about F1:
http://www.f1-zeropoint.com/
http://all-of-f1.blogspot.com/

My trip to The Gambia 3 wonderful weeks, started with me booking on
line at www.traveleyeuk.com. There I got a cheap ticket for £199.00 to
Banjul, I could not believe my luck that this company
www.traveleyeuk.com sold such cheap tickets, the flight was economy but

Johannesburg International Airport will soon be renamed the O.R. Tambo
International Airport. The name change was announced in parliament
yesterday.
Marc

Is Livingstone in Zambia a good place to travel? I know about the
sights, but I'm curious about safety, crime and political stability as
with the coming elections and the unstable situation in Zimbabwe right
across the border.

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